contributing to our sense of self , or our subjectivity . The discussion focuses on the emotional self in the context of western societies - principally Anglophone and western European countries - at the end of the twentieth century .
Author: Deborah Lupton
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0761956026
Category: Social Science
Page: 195
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`This addition to a growing number of texts which approach emotions and emotionality from a social constructionist perspective is well written, scholarly, accessible and interesting.... There is both breadth and depth to this work.' - Feminism and Psychology This broad-ranging and accessible book brings together social and cultural theory with original empirical research into the nature of the emotional self in contemporary western societies. The emphasis of the analysis is on the emotional self as a dynamic project that is continually shaped and reshaped via discourse, embodied sensations, memory, personal biography and interactions with others and objects. Using an interdisciplinary approa